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Sleeping Giant Awakening: A December Focus on Keyboard Repertoire with the Composer Collective

This month New York-based composer collective Sleeping Giant takes up residence on Hammered!. From December 5 though December 30, composers Timothy Andres, Christopher Cerrone, Jacob Cooper, Ted Hearne, Robert Honstein and Andrew Norman offer a dynamic range of new works for keyboard. Highlights include Mondays hosted by Timothy Andres, spoken introductions from the composers, downloads of in-concert recordings and exciting, new performance videos.

Friday, December 16, 2011

'Is it Auburn?'and 'Just please let me know and that's all I ask from you' are part of a larger set of works I'm calling Email Songs. The pieces in Email Songs take their cue from a collection of over 100 emails a friend of mine received in error. The emails had been sent to a man with the same name as my friend and contained a meticulous record of every communication this person had sent or received within a popular dating site.